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Boxing / Re: ADARQ VS SOUTHPAW : FIGHT IN MAY!
« on: February 16, 2011, 09:33:31 am »
If there is no video, there will be hell to pay.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 16, 2011, 09:24:40 am »Yo are you gonna be training at balance this weekend? I may come down to test my standing and dropstep vert on the jumpmat.
The jumpmat has been missing for months. Ori, the manager, kept promising me he'd bring it back from the Thomas Circle location but he's a LYING LIAR. But yeah, I'll be there. Actually, I'll ask him again tonight to bring it back if he's around.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 15, 2011, 09:33:35 pm »
BW = 171.3
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = outside left hip tweaking a little EDIT and left calf, but not where it was hurting last week
FATIGUE = low
DIET = probably not enough protein or vegetables
s1: volume-strength
- RATING (6/10)
- warmup
- ME jumps (~5-7 x 2)
weak, mostly ~30
- MR double leg bounds: 5 x 5
first set was best but all okay and better than the last time I did these
- SQUAT: 4 x 5
275,275,275,275
- trap bar DL 1x5
335
- OHP: 3x5
125,125,125
- DB row: 3x5
65,65,65
- UNILATERAL: 3 x 3e (BSS)
still too retarded to remember everything I'm supposed to do in a single workout, even when I write it down, which is always
- OPTIONAL: CORE (Y/N?)
circuit x3
--Pallof press x10ex80
--leg lower x12
- STRETCH
SORENESS = none
ACHES/INJURIES = outside left hip tweaking a little EDIT and left calf, but not where it was hurting last week
FATIGUE = low
DIET = probably not enough protein or vegetables
s1: volume-strength
- RATING (6/10)
- warmup
- ME jumps (~5-7 x 2)
weak, mostly ~30
- MR double leg bounds: 5 x 5
first set was best but all okay and better than the last time I did these
- SQUAT: 4 x 5
275,275,275,275
- trap bar DL 1x5
335
- OHP: 3x5
125,125,125
- DB row: 3x5
65,65,65
- OPTIONAL: CORE (Y/N?)
circuit x3
--Pallof press x10ex80
--leg lower x12
- STRETCH
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 15, 2011, 02:17:24 pm »You really play that? If so, what do you need to be good at for that? Short distance sprints? Throwing power? What?
Short distance speed/acceleration and COD/quickness are most important, followed by strong cardio and lactic acid tolerance. Points are rarely longer than 2-3 minutes, but they're all out. Hops help a lot, too.
Once you reach a certain minimal level of strength the throwing power becomes about technique more than anything else. I know lots of people that can throw the length of the field (myself included). It's much more about angle and accuracy past a certain minimal point. It's like a three-pointer. Anyone can get the ball to go from the three-point line to the basket, but not many people can get it to go in the basket consistently.
We're getting wayyyy off-topic.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 15, 2011, 01:32:29 pm »Lower leg felt totally fine yesterday and feels fine again today. It was a birthday extravaganza this weekend: Saturday I spent the whole day helping my mom prepare for my dad's birthday party while he did the rest of his hike, then we had the party, then I was too tired to do much but play cards and go to sleep. Yesterday was my mom's birthday (my parents' birthdays are 5 days apart), so we did some family shit.
I should go to the gym today, but I'm conflicted because A) it's Valentine's Day and B) Tuesdays and Thursdays are generally better because the court doesn't get taken over until 8, rather than 7:15.
what the hell does valentine's day have to do with anything wtf?
word u coulda gone sunday/tuesday/thursday wt.f
happy BDAY to the LBSS-clan.
pc
strong question. the answer is nothing. i had a reason for bringing it up but it's not worth getting into now.
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Pics, Videos, & Links / Re: Squat 355 x 3 with thighs exposed, plus ~38" running vert pic
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:24:56 pm »
You live on the Upper West Side?
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 05:20:10 pm »You ended a LR planter because you probably jump a lot to block shots with your right arm. If you do that, you're going to jump LR so that the right arm is forward to reach towards the jump shooter. Also, shooting off the dribble is usually a LR plant so that the right arm is a bit forward. That skateboard thing, and pretty much anything else - is very indicative of your natural stable position. A stable position is a good position to jump off from.
Whenever I look at Vince (Carter) jumping for a block, he plants RL and goes up with his left hand, because he naturally plants RL. And you can see that in his block shot jumps as well.
PS. My therapist commented on how much more developed my right forearm is. No idea why.
I don't play basketball.
You could've spare both me and you some time and offer the answer to the question "what do you play?"
Didn't think you'd be interested. I play ultimate frisbee, although I'm taking a break at the moment to try to become a better athlete without the risk of spraining my ankle again. FWIW, as a right hander, my left foot is my pivot/plant foot for throws.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 14, 2011, 03:14:43 pm »
UPDATE: Watson takes on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter tonight. All other plans have been put on hold.
Google it, you lazy fucks.
Google it, you lazy fucks.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 14, 2011, 03:11:15 pm »I don't know anybody of any nationality that thinks the republicans do your country any good except for stupid fucking Americans. The Japanese hate republicans, the English hate republicans, the Irish hate republicans, the French hate repubicans (add in the rest of Europe), all the Africans I know hate the republicans...I could go on for days. Your countries political system is just a horrific mess. Theres really not a huge difference between America and China and Russia these days. You big countries are just a fucking horrific cluster fuck of a fucking mess...
Republicans hate you, too.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 03:10:03 pm »You ended a LR planter because you probably jump a lot to block shots with your right arm. If you do that, you're going to jump LR so that the right arm is forward to reach towards the jump shooter. Also, shooting off the dribble is usually a LR plant so that the right arm is a bit forward. That skateboard thing, and pretty much anything else - is very indicative of your natural stable position. A stable position is a good position to jump off from.
Whenever I look at Vince (Carter) jumping for a block, he plants RL and goes up with his left hand, because he naturally plants RL. And you can see that in his block shot jumps as well.
PS. My therapist commented on how much more developed my right forearm is. No idea why.
I don't play basketball.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: February 14, 2011, 12:32:39 pm »man the american health care system pisses me off so much...
having people not able to get treatment due to cost is just third world and stupid... how can the leading nation in the world have such shit health care when places like australia, england and switzerland etc. can have affordable public health care...
so fucking stupid....
apologies for the rant i just can stand the healthcare u got over there
its the republicans fault...
and the democrats for being pussies and not doing what's right.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 12:27:27 pm »QuotePushing a Heavy object - Right foot forward
2-foot jump plant - LR
Kick - Left leg
Starting sprint stance - Right leg forward
1 foot jumping leg - Right leg
All the bolded stuff suggests you should jump RL. Let me ask you something else: what way do you stand on a skateboard? Although I don't have a skate or use one, when I fooled around with one I was beyond any doubt standing on it in a LR stance, with the left leg on it and the right leg pushing into the ground. That's solid with my natural LR plant.
And yet, my RL jumping is like a French person trying to throw a baseball. Clumsy and uncoordinated and 50% of the time the ball goes straight into the ground. Seriously, half the time I try to jump RL, I end up either planting with my left foot anyway, despite my best intentions, or doing a horrifically awkward simultaneous plant. It's embarrassing. Same goes for trying to jump of my left foot, when I try single-leg jumps. Half the time I end up jumping off my right foot anway.
My right leg is superior in strength movements, btw, and it's bigger than the left. The last time I got a massage, the therapist made a comment immediately about how much more defined my right leg is than my left.
I'm the same as you on a skateboard. Normal stance.
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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: a fast and explosive donkey!
« on: February 14, 2011, 11:02:44 am »
Lower leg felt totally fine yesterday and feels fine again today. It was a birthday extravaganza this weekend: Saturday I spent the whole day helping my mom prepare for my dad's birthday party while he did the rest of his hike, then we had the party, then I was too tired to do much but play cards and go to sleep. Yesterday was my mom's birthday (my parents' birthdays are 5 days apart), so we did some family shit.
I should go to the gym today, but I'm conflicted because A) it's Valentine's Day and B) Tuesdays and Thursdays are generally better because the court doesn't get taken over until 8, rather than 7:15.
I should go to the gym today, but I'm conflicted because A) it's Valentine's Day and B) Tuesdays and Thursdays are generally better because the court doesn't get taken over until 8, rather than 7:15.
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ADARQ & LanceSTS - Q&A / Re: LR vs RL plant for Dunking
« on: February 14, 2011, 10:42:27 am »
Pushing a Heavy object - Right foot forward
2-foot jump plant - LR
Kick - Left leg
Starting sprint stance - Right leg forward
1 foot jumping leg - Right leg
I'm right handed and jump much higher off my right leg than my left. Also, my handle (such as it is) is much better with my left hand than with my right. When I do jumps at the rim I reach with my left hand, because my shoulder is higher on that side so I can reach higher.
The differences are huge, too. I was never much of a soccer player but when I'm messing around left leg is a lot more powerful and a LOT more dexterous (see what I did there?) than right. Even popping a basketball up to myself off the ground, left foot is automatic. Dribbling with my left hand is MUCH more comfortable than with my right hand, although admittedly I suck at both. LR plant is probably twice as good as RL plant, shit just gets awkward when I try to go RL. Sprint isn't quite so much of a difference in terms of which foot starts forward, but in a race I would definitely do right foot forward.
Interesting thread.
2-foot jump plant - LR
Kick - Left leg
Starting sprint stance - Right leg forward
1 foot jumping leg - Right leg
I'm right handed and jump much higher off my right leg than my left. Also, my handle (such as it is) is much better with my left hand than with my right. When I do jumps at the rim I reach with my left hand, because my shoulder is higher on that side so I can reach higher.
The differences are huge, too. I was never much of a soccer player but when I'm messing around left leg is a lot more powerful and a LOT more dexterous (see what I did there?) than right. Even popping a basketball up to myself off the ground, left foot is automatic. Dribbling with my left hand is MUCH more comfortable than with my right hand, although admittedly I suck at both. LR plant is probably twice as good as RL plant, shit just gets awkward when I try to go RL. Sprint isn't quite so much of a difference in terms of which foot starts forward, but in a race I would definitely do right foot forward.
Interesting thread.